Unhealthy Practice [Pakistan polio workers]

Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Accessed 27 April 2013
Unhealthy Practice
By Leonard S. Rubenstein
April 24, 2013

For the second time in less than six months, polio vaccine workers in Pakistan have come under fire. For the gunmen, killing health care workers has been seen as a legitimate response to a nefarious extension of Western power. And, for the CIA, faux vaccine campaigns have sometimes been justified as part of the war on terror. Both sides are wrong: denying or providing health care should never be an instrument of statecraft…